Wednesday, January 14, 2015

I've noticed such an increase in visitors to my blog and especially my Facebook page. Thank you for following me and liking my page! I'm still here but have been so busy working on new things in my Etsy store. Life is wonderful!

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

I partnered up with Pink Clouds for a giveaway! Her blog is totally awesome with great reviews and tips too. Visit her blog to enter to win a set of my 3D butterflies!

You can enter here for another chance to win by leaving a comment below on where you would put them up. This giveaway is available worldwide. If you don't win or can't wait, you can also order them from my Etsy store. Thanks!

Friday, August 24, 2012

I'm not sure what all the hype is with the owls lately but I was again wasting my time on Pinterest and came across these cute bookmarks. I have my monthly stamp club swap coming up and our challenge this month was to create something other than a card. So I thought I would make these and show you how easy they are too.

But if you don't feel like making any you can purchase them in my Etsy store too!

We only had to make one thing per person in my stamp club and that totaled 7 of us. But since these can be used as treat toppers or bookmarks I made six for everyone.

Let me break down the amount of things I had to punch out just because
it's ALOT! Oh and here's where the how-to comes in. I used a Sizzix
Top Note Die for the base and I needed 42 of them. Thank goodness for my Big Shot on that part! You can also just cut a piece of cardstock at 4 1/2 x 3 1/2.

Then you need circles (2 of each) cut at 1/4 inch, 1 inch and 1 3/8 inches. For me that amounted to 252 HAND PUNCHED CIRCLES! Ok, got a little excited but if I didn't have carpal tunnel before, I have it now. I also used a five petal flower punch and just used one petal for the beak. See the picture below for everything you need then just assemble it together. Easy peasy!

Thursday, June 28, 2012

I spend way too much time on Etsy & Pinterest, I did however get this great idea from one of those places and was excited to try it for myself. After gluing about 150 of the book page circles and knowing I had another 150 to go, well, let's just say all the excitement had left me. I did manage to finish it but you know I'm missing one little thing.......the light! I forgot to purchase it when I bought the lantern. Since I am so exhausted excited from doing it, I thought I would share it without the light for now. It measures about 12 inches around and has 300 3.5 inch circles glued on it.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

So I've never sewn anything in my life......ok I did sew on a button once. I bought this fancy $20.00 battery operated sewing machine because I wanted to start sewing on my scrapbook pages and cards. I took it out of the box and thought, hey I could make something, to heck with the scrapbook pages, I want to sew! Ummmm 3 hours later and this is what I made.

I was going to make this a sewing FAIL post but I have to say it didn't come out too shabby. It's not "shabby" in a shabby chic kind of way but I didn't do too shabby. Let's see if it holds up to much movement or if it will all come apart at the seams! I'm giving it to my niece because I'm hoping she won't notice my bad sewing lines, thread showing and me not knowing how to sew an invisible stitch!

Thanks to Purl Bee for the tutorial! I would have posted a picture of what theirs look like but I didn't want to spoil mine with their wonderful sewing skills!

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

I made a few more tear bears holding some quilled flowers, I have them on eBay and you can see them by clicking here. I had a few people ask how I make them. I might do a tutorial soon but some flower tutorials are on the way first. Keep an eye out!

Sunday, May 13, 2012

My new love of scrapbook or card embellishments are tear bears. They are a lot of fun to make but a bit of work. I've added quilled flowers to the flower cone they are holding. I love how they come out, too cute! You can see them on my eBay store too.

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